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33 Hum. Rts. Q. 76 (2011)
The Right to Development: The Politics and Polemics of Power and Resistance

handle is hein.journals/hurq33 and id is 78 raw text is: HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY The Right to Development: The Politics and Polemics of Power and Resistance Bonny lbhawoh* ABSTRACT The polarized debate amongst states, scholars, and practitioners over the right to development is underlined by salient paradoxes and contradictions. The rhetoric of the right to development has been deployed both as a lan- guage of resistance to oppose a hegemonic global economic system and as a language of power to assert national sovereignty and legitimize statist political and economic agendas. Apart from bedeviling the elaboration and implementation of the right to development, the insular political and ideological jockeying that has characterized the discourse raises pertinent questions about the normative objectivity of the international human rights movement. I. INTRODUCTION Recent academic and policy debates on the right to development have fo- cused on two main themes. The first is the discussion over conceptualizing and framing development as a human right, which has been polarized along * Bonny lbhawoh is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor in Social Justice and Equity Studies at Brock University where he teaches human rights. Previ- ously, he was a Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York; Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen; and Associate Member of the Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has also taught at Ambrose Alli University and the University of Lagos in Nigeria. His book, Imperialism and Human Rights: Colonial Dis- courses of Rights and Liberties in African History (2007) was named an American Library Association's Choice outstanding academic title. Human Rights Quarterly 33 (2011) 76-104 O 2011 by The Johns Hopkins University Press

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